Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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CLASS HISTORY The year is September 1955. The class of 1961 entered Fleming- ton High School with 65 students. To most of the students we were enter- ing a strange new world. A world where we would spend our next six years. It took us quite a while to get accustomed to the school. It seemed so different from our grade school years. There were so many rooms and different things to do. And when they told us to had only five minutes between classes to began to wonder how we would make it up and down all those stairs in just five minutes. But as time went by we found that it could be done and it was dene. Yes, this life was very different, but it was fun teaming different things. Wo remember our first class meeting. Vfe met with Mr. Boyce and firs. Burton as our class sponsors. It was on Sept- ember 25, 1955. It was here that we elected our 7th grade class offi- cers. We had two sections, so we had two officers for each office. Section A's officers were: President-James Wyckoff Vice President-Carol Parsons Secretary-Treasurer-Peggy McNeff Historian-Raymond Neupert For section B, the officers were: President-Reta Blake Vice Presidont-Betty Greathouse Secretary-Treasurer-Joan Longwell Historian-Paulette Fleming During the year we chose pink and black as our class colors and Hornets as our class name. Our class cheerleaders were Madaline Stonko, Carol Parsons, Reta Blake, and Mary Jo Devart. On March 26, 27, and 28 the class tournaments wore held. Al- though our own 7th grade was defeated in both the girls and boys team by the 8th grade, we were still proud of our players. We went on that year with lots of fun and excitement. We want to thank the teachers for being so patient with us. It is now September 1956. We are now 8th graders, lliis year our class sponsors were Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Cardot. This year our class officers were: President-Reta Blake and Margaret Purkey Vice President+Betty Greathouse and Nadine Phelps Secrotary-Paulette Fleming and Peggy McNeff Treasurer-Paul Bays and Sharon McDonough Historian-Carolyn Costilow raid Nadine Phelps Soon it was time for class tournaments again. We decided to change our colors from pink and black Hornets to blue and white Bull- dogs. Our 8th grade girls were successful this year in the tourna- ments, but our boys were defeated. The 8th grade girls were very proud when we won the Jr. High Championship banner. Also our cheer-